www.washingtontimes.com Topics: Henry Cuellarhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/henry-cuellar/?utm_medium=RSSwww.washingtontimes.com Topics: Henry Cuellaren-usFri, 25 Jul 2014 08:33:45 -0400Rep. Henry Cuellar on border crisis: 'Playing defense on the one-yard line'http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/25/henry-cuellar-border-crisis-playing-defense-one-ya/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Rep. Henry Cuellar, Texas Democrat, said Friday there must be a shared responsibility between the United States and Central American countries in dealing with the current influx of illegal alien children coming into the country.</p> <p>"If we continue playing defense on the one-yard line called the U.S.-Mexico border where I ...David SherfinskiFri, 25 Jul 2014 08:33:45 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/25/henry-cuellar-border-crisis-playing-defense-one-ya/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSTexas Rep. Cuellar: No summer break until we deal with border crisishttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/23/cuellar-no-summer-break-until-deal-border-crisis/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Rep. Henry Cuellar, Texas Democrat, said Wednesday that Congress needs to stay in Washington until they pass something to deal with the influx of unaccompanied minors along the United States' southern border.</p> <p>"If we don't finish this by July 31, we should stay here until we get this job done," ...David SherfinskiWed, 23 Jul 2014 10:53:00 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/23/cuellar-no-summer-break-until-deal-border-crisis/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSTexas lawmakers act on unaccompanied minors crisis at the borderhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/15/texas-lawmakers-act-unaccompanied-minors-crisis-bo/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, said Tuesday that cartels have found a "gap" in the U.S. immigration law, and the problem of unaccompanied minors crossing the border will only get worse unless Congress acts.</p> <p>"They've cracked the code," he said on MSNBC of the cartels. "They've figured out this gap ...Jacqueline KlimasTue, 15 Jul 2014 08:01:49 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/15/texas-lawmakers-act-unaccompanied-minors-crisis-bo/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSALLARD: South Texas, the nation's new front linehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/10/allard-south-texas-the-nations-new-front-line/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>The place where American military forces are most needed is neither Iraq nor Afghanistan, but on our overrun border with Mexico.</p> <p>Like other national security problems, this one smoldered for a long time before becoming exponentially worse over the past two months. Now there are only two realistic alternatives: Either ...Ken AllardThu, 10 Jul 2014 20:03:07 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/10/allard-south-texas-the-nations-new-front-line/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSTexas Democrat says Obama 'one step behind' on border crisishttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/6/texas-democrat-says-obama-one-step-behind-border-c/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>A Texas Democrat accused the Obama administration of remaining "one step behind" in dealing with the wave of migrants flooding the U.S. border with Mexico.</p> <p>"We should have been ready for this surge, the administration should have been ready," Rep. Henry Cuellar said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," ...Jessica ChasmarSun, 06 Jul 2014 14:27:28 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/6/texas-democrat-says-obama-one-step-behind-border-c/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSWar surplus sought for U.S. securityhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/27/war-surplus-sought-for-us-security/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Two Texas lawmakers, joined by 17 border sheriffs from Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, have asked Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta to authorize the shipment of surplus equipment being returned from the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan to the border with Mexico as a matter of "national security."</p> <p>Reps. ...Jerry SeperTue, 27 Mar 2012 20:02:07 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/27/war-surplus-sought-for-us-security/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSThreats slow search for U.S. man in Mexican lakehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/7/threats-slow-search-for-us-man-in-mexican-lake/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p><strong>ZAPATA, Texas</strong> | A search for a missing American tourist presumably shot and killed by Mexican pirates on a border lake has been thwarted by threats of an ambush from drug gangs, U.S. officials said Thursday.</p> <p>U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar told reporters Mexican authorities are doing everything they can to ...Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:47:15 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/7/threats-slow-search-for-us-man-in-mexican-lake/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS